Author Description

"The Gulf and the Struggle for Hegemony examines the political, economic, and social development of the Gulf in terms of the regional context as well as through the complicated, interconnected prism of the individual polities- Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Arab Emirates, the Sultanate of Oman, Iran, Yemen, and Iraq-Syria. The work introduces the concept of the Gulf Security System- the symbiotic relationship between the Arabian Gulf and the West- which has contributed to stability and modernization in a region plagued by a lack of both" -- author description.